Everything I’ve read doesn’t support a theory of “false information”…just the opposite except for the MSM. And I don’t put much stock in what they report.
There is substantial new evidence emerging from truckloads of documents seized in the days following the fall of the Saddamite regime that the Butcher of Baghdad did, indeed, have direct links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qa’ida network (links only the most nescient of observers would deny).
Translations of highly detailed Iraqi intelligence reports reveal, among many connections, that senior al-Qa’ida leader Abu Musaab Zarqawi met with Iraqi Intelligence Service officials on numerous occasions just prior to Saddam’s ouster; that Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s closest adviser, met several times with Iraqi Intelligence Service Deputy Director Faruq Hijazi prior to September 11, 2001; and that al-Qa’ida terrorists with Ansar al-Islam in Northern Iraq operated with impunity under Saddam’s orders. There is also specific evidence that high-level Iraqis traveled to Sudan in the mid-1990s to teach al-Qa’ida operatives how to make sophisticated vehicle bombs similar to those al-Qa’ida used against targets in Saudi Arabia and two U.S. embassies in Africa. This information utterly refutes a June United Nations terrorism-committee report which concluded, at that time, there were no links between Saddam and al-Qa’ida.
The new findings confirm an assertion about the Saddam-al-Qa’ida link by CIA Director George Tenet as far back as October, 2002, when he informed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, “We have solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al-Qa’ida going back a decade. … We have credible reporting that al-Qa’ida leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire WMD capabilities.”